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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2005
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2003
Applicant:
Jacque L. Malfait, Cobourg, CA;
Inventor:
Jacque L. Malfait, Cobourg, CA;
Assignee:
The Quaker Oats Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A21D013/00 ; A23L001/18 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention provides a method of puffing a food starch material capable of becoming amorphous into a food starch material product. The method includes forming food starch material pellets by extruding gelatinized food starch flour in an extruder. The pellets are then placed in a puffing chamber and heated under pressure until the pellets become amorphous. The amorphous food starch material product is then expanded to form a puffed, unitary product composed of all the pellets placed in the chamber.